The Company Road Podcast E38 Celine Waters - Somatic resilience: Navigate work and life’s challenges with inner strength
“We need to consciously become aware of our patterns and our behaviours before we change them and understand how they’re serving us in the first place.”
Celine Waters
In this episode you’ll hear about:
- The practice of somatic design: How to create deeper connections between our mind, body and spirit and experience the transformative benefits of somatics
- Harnessing inner resilience: What it means to cultivate inner resilience through recognising your own capacity to adapt, bounce back from setbacks and find strength in adversity
- Understanding the impacts of trauma: Unpacking the somatic experience of trauma, and how historic trauma can become stored in the body and have deep physical consequences
- Create safe spaces for emotional expression: How to set up safe spaces for vulnerability and expression within the workplace and more broadly to enable personal growth, healing and emotional wellbeing
- Transformative leadership: How to drive positive organisational change and foster a culture of resilience and collaboration through prioritising emotional wellbeing, growth and collective transformation
Key links
Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan https://www.mindtools.com/a4l75hx/immunity-to-change
Strozzi Institute https://strozziinstitute.com/
Eduardo Galeano https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/15/eduardo-galeano
Sapiens book https://www.amazon.com.au/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095
Tall Poppy Syndrome https://harpersbazaar.com.au/tall-poppy-syndrome-wellbeing-mental-health/
Amy Cuddy TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are?language=en
About our guest
Celine Waters is a human-centred designer and somatic coach committed to individual and collective transformation. She started out in biochemistry and following a post-grad in computer science, moved into business consulting in Australia and Ireland, working across big organisations.
Her current focus is in the research of the intersection of design and somatics, bringing body intelligence into her work. She studies body psychotherapy and somatic coaching for social justice.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co).
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with University of Melbourne in Innovation, and Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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